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I used to contract with agencies like this, job coaches, to help find people who just can't get it together to look for work, usually long term drug addicts, who were clean, but messed up, or people on welfare to work program, or people in voc rehab, marginally mentally retarded, but able to maintain employment once a job was found, by a job developer, and maintain employment using a job coach for training...and I expected results for my money. No results, no more money.
Usually the workers there were about one step away from being my clients...
Last edited by jasper12; 09-29-2011 at 11:53 AM..
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What type of incentives do employers get in exchange for hiring clients referred from your agency?
I have the answer but it certainly would be interesting to see what TVSG's response will be.
He says, "UC is not something discussed at the office, just employment" and, "The last company trained clients on how to keep jobs. We found them jobs too but it wasn't the main focus. At this job the only goal is to find them jobs and that's it" This from a 36 year old allegedly professional employment counselor.
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Usually the workers there were about one step away from being my clients...
I cannot believe this mess I have walked into and now I'm stuck because if I quit i can;t get back on unemployment. The job continues to get worst every week and I think I will purposely get myself fired before the end of the year. On top of not receiving any training on how this company operates, someone was fired last Friday and now they are trying to fill that position. I see certain staff walking around saying-"i'm overwhelmed" during the day which is not something a new staff member should see during the first two weeks.
I accepted this job offer too fast because of watching so many stories on Fox News about unemployment and started to get nervous. Anyone else ever been in this situation?
Stuck like Chuck
I wasn't unemployed as much as self-employed, and someone made me an offer that seemed really good.
Three months later, I was fully self-employed again, having walked into an unholy mess. About a month into it, people started asking me how I was getting along with the boss. "You know, because he's kind of special."
Right. He was the biggest WHINER I had ever run into in 23 years in the workforce, he was sexist, he used foul language to describe women that I can't even share here without getting infracted, he gossiped and complained about everyone in the organization to everyone else, he'd spend two hours a day talking about his personal life and expect me to make up the time after hours, he got offended when I corrected typos in his work (I'm a writer/editor), and he had hygiene problems that included public nose-picking and booger-eating.
It was the most revolting experience I have ever had in the workplace, and it just made the fire in my belly that much stronger for NEVER having to deal with working for someone else again if there is any way I can avoid doing so.
/me throws up in mouth just thinking about it
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